Posted on 07/02/2007 8:35:21 AM PDT by IrishMike
KARACHI - Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.
According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is expected to make an important announcement on extremism during an address to the nation in the next day or two.
The ATol contacts in Islamabad say that coalition intelligence has pinpointed at least four centers in the tribal areas of North Waziristan and South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan from which Taliban operations inside Afghanistan are run. These bases include arms caches and the transfer and raising of money and manpower, the latter in the form of foot-soldiers to fight with the Taliban-led insurgency.
Operations inside Pakistan might be carried out independently by the United States, probably with air power, by Pakistani forces acting alone or as joint offensives. In all cases, though, the US will pull the strings, for instance by providing the Pakistanis with information on targets to hit.
Musharraf has apparently already told his military commanders, the National Security Council and decision-makers in government of the development.
Officially, both NATO and Pakistan deny any agreement on hot-pursuit activities. Major John Thomas, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, told Asia Times Online, "The ISAF would not strike any targets across the border. That is not part of our mission. We work with the Pakistani government closely on cross-border issues. The ISAF does not have a counter-terrorism mission that I know of."
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I’ll take two!
I saw that a couple of weeks ago and e-mailed the link around...
The navlog site has become a favorite.
Run by a Freeper I think, can't think of his handle right off.
Actually, that’s an Apache engaging the vermin with their 30mm chin gun.
What ever it takes, let the killing begin.
Excuse me? Some of that is my tax money you're playing with (well the part the government just doesn't turn the printing press on for, further devaluing the dollar and our true net worth). I'd rather it be returned to the original owner, namely me, instead of paying off yet another third world thug that will eventually turn on us, requiring yet another 'spreading democracy' adventure at some future point
Somebody needs to give Asian reporters lessons in writing. The US did not ask for this NATTO did, big difference in my book. More media spin to make it look like Bush did it.
I never thought I’d see this happen. Musharraf had better start wearing kevlar body suits and employing a couple dozen look-alikes if he wants to stay alive for very long. And once they do get him, Pakistan, along with all that advanced American hardware plus nuclear weapons, will fall into the radical islamists hands.
I bet Bush gives him millions..
Musharraf has been the target of several assassination attempts. I believe he is feeling the heat from the Islamist and is allowing the US and NATO to do his dirty work for self preservation. Just my opinion.
If we really get access and kick the Taliban’s and Al Quaida’s asses in Pakistan and they have no place else to go, it could be a billion and still be cheap!
If this is true, it’s about time
I wonder if this has anything to do with osama.
What is true is that Mursharraf is hanging on by a thread.
Bump!
Good stuff, several years old, though, and from an Apache, not a Spectre.
Something big is going on!
Is it Bin Laden, or worse yet, did Pakistan lose a nuke?
Does it come with a bottle of duplicolor touchup paint?
Thanks for your service. Welcome home!
Ya know, you may well be correct on the spectre thing, I may be thinking of another video, but I do know it’s not even close to new.
Here’s two links I have that may still be good. the first i have labelled as from a c-130 in Afghanistan, the secnd Iraq apache. I don’t know the accuracy of either.
http://digitaldreamteam.com/images/AC130_GunshipMed.wmv
http://www.lunitixx.com/sharefoo/224Helicopter_Kills.mpeg
I also have this link to some videos. i can’t recall where i got it, though. Some are better than others, all are graphic. http://users.rcn.com/sitzkrieg/war/
Wow, a lot of hot brass on the drivers backside!
Looks like a toy for Blackwater or Zapata. Too light on armor, though, for our troops.
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